Dublin Film Critics Awards 2008

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
2008 Dublin Film Critics Circle award winners: January 7, 2008
 

Directed by Leonard Abrahamson and written by Mark O’Halloran, the dramatic comedy Garage revolves around the lonely and somewhat dim-witted caretaker (Pat Shortt) of a crumbling small-town gas station whose life is radically changed after a teenager comes to work with him.

 
Best Irish Film: Garage by Leonard Abrahamson
Runners-up: Once, Kings, Small Engine Repair, Shrooms
Best International Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runners-up: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, This Is England, Zodiac, I’m Not There
Best Director: David Fincher, Zodiac
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Breakthrough Award: Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
 
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by Andre Soares | January 8, 2008   
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German Film Critics Awards 2007 Winners

Sandra Hüller in Requiem (top); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom)

Surprisingly, the Association of German Film Critics did not pick Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s internationally acclaimed Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others as the best German film of 2006. Instead, their choice was Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, based on the real-life story of a woman who believed herself possessed by the devil. (That same story also inspired the undemonic The Exorcism of Emily Rose.) Henckel von Donnersmarck had to content himself with winning the best first film prize.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Lives of Others has had the biggest opening for a German-language film ever in the United States. (I’m assuming [...]

by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007   
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German Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 German Film Critics Association Awards
2007 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlinale on Feb. 13, 2007
 

Sandra Hüller in Requiem
 

Best Film: Requiem directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
Best First Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary (tie): Behind the Couch directed by Viet Helmer and Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen / Germany: A Summer Fairytale by Sonke Wortmann
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Requiem
Best Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Sommer vorm Balkon / Summer in Berlin
Best Cinematography: Hagen Bogdanski, The Lives of Others
Best Editing: Patricia Rommel, The Lives of Others
Best Score: Bert Wrede, Knallhart
 
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German Film Critics Awards: 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]

by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007   
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European Film Awards 2006

2006 European Film Awards
2006 European Film Award nominations: Seville Film Festival on Nov. 4, 2006
2006 European Film Award winners: EXPO XXI in Warsaw on Dec. 2, 2006. Sophie Marceau and Maciej Stuhr hosted the awards ceremony.
† Eligible films had to be released in their countries of origin between July 2005 and April/May 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: JaczekTurczyk/PAP
 

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO; Ireland/UK
directed by Neil Jordan
produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films
GRBAVICA; Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia
directed by Jasmila Zbanic
produced by coop99 filmproduktion GmbH/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film
* DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others); Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO; UK
directed by Michael [...]

by Andre Soares | December 2, 2006   
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2006 European Film Awards Winners

The European Film Academy, whose awards ceremony was held this evening in Warsaw, has opted for conventionality by giving its best European film award to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a Cold War spy-thriller-cum-melodrama lacking both thrills and drama.
Additionally, The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe (above, top photo), the one saving grace in the film, received the best European actor award for his role as a Stasi spy who, while eavesdropping on a playwright in the mid-1980s, begins to question both his personal ethics and his allegiance to the Communist Party. In real life, Mühe, a renowned stage actor since the 1980s, was himself spied on by East Germany’s [...]

by Andre Soares | December 2, 2006   
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Bavarian Film Awards 2006

2006 Bavarian Film Awards
2006 Bavarian Film Awards: Prinzregententheater in Munich on January 13, 2006
 

Julia Jentsch in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
 

Best Production: Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, produced by Sven Burgemeister, Christoph Müller, Marc Rothemund, and Fred Breinersdorfer (directed by Marc Rothemund)
Best Director: Andreas Dresen, Sommer vorm Balkon
Best Young Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Nina Hoss, Die Weiße Massai
Best Young Actor: Max Riemelt, Der Rote Kakadu
Best Young Actress: Sandra Hüller, Requiem
Best Screenplay: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others
Best Cinematography: Hans-Günther Bücking, Schneeland
Best Documentary: Die Große Stille / Into [...]

by Andre Soares | January 14, 2006   
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